Yohan Blake Quotes
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.
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Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.
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Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
